The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The Man Who Married the Moon, sentence 114
Scarcely could the people themselves dig deep enough to find so much water as would keep them alive.
Who acts: Scarcely · What happens: dig, find, keep · To what, where: people
This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The Man Who Married the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 dig | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dig | nsubj |
| 5 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 people | nmod |
| 6 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dig | xcomp |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 deep | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 find | mark |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 deep | advcl |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dig | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dig | advcl |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | could | Scarcely | the people people nsubj; much water conj; deep property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Scarcely not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | would | Scarcely not said here | people | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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